Upgrading should be fairly easy but you’ll need to know two things. Backup your current older copy of Basic Simplicity (especially if you made edits to the core theme files, like the index.php file) and you’ll need to fix the header background image.Everything else should be seamless. If you run into trouble please let me know.

New Features

Added full URL to header image.

Added javascript for nested inline comment reply form.

Improved nested comments formatting.

Added multiple page support using <!–nextpage–> tag.

Added show/hide function to make it easier to hide the posted by, tags and add comment link.

Housekeeping, changed is_home() to is_front_page().

Housekeeping, changed get_settings() to get_option().

Bug Fixes

Fixed the search form on 404 page

Added stripslashes to the custom css

Fixed bug in bottom widgets to allow multiple widgets

As always I’d like to hear what you think and if you run into any bugs or other weirdness. Thanks and enjoy Basic Simplicity 1.4.1.

17 Responses to “Basic Simplicity 1.4.1 Released”

I installed Basic Simplicity a month or so ago, set up the site and then just upgraded to 1.4.1. It work great, except for a couple things (I’m a beginner at this, so forgive me).

1. I had inserted a short blurb about our co-op in the index.php that, before I did the upgrade, that showed up above the posts on all the pages. That was perfect. I backed it up like you said. When I did the upgrade, the text moved along with it – ie. when I open up the Main Index Template (index.php) in editor it is there and in the same spot, but it’s not showing up on my website. Any ideas?

2. The main reason I upgraded was I saw that the new version allows you to hide the posted by, tags and add comment link. I see how to do that in “edit basic simplicy”, but I’m wondering if I can just do that on the pages and not the blog posts? I’d still like the posted by, tags and comments on the blog posts.

#1 Double check that the editor is opening up on the right version of Basic Simplicity. There is a drop down in the upper right of the page that lets you switch back and forth between themes. It should default to the newest version. The only other thought I have is that you might be looking a cached page in your browser or served up through a plugin like WP Super Cache or even the host server (but that is rare).

Just where Basic Simplicity thinks it should be. When I view the page source from the browser, the image name is not included: #header { background: #eeeeee url(‘http://www.allanjackson.co.za/pb/wp-content/themes/basic-simplicity/images/’) left no-repeat; }

Then I tried putting the image into the site root and alttered theimage location in basicS . Still no image and I got the following strange duplication in the page source: #header { background: #eeeeee url(‘http://www.allanjackson.co.za/pb/wp-content/themes/basic-simplicity/images/http://www.allanjackson.co.za/header.gif’) left no-repeat; } #navbar { background: #cccccc; }

Do you have any ideas on fixing that or how to install the previous version of BasicS. I have it installed on another blog but am afraid it will overwite my widget setup. Sorry for the long post!

I’m not particularly keen to redo my whole widget and plugin setup but do you think it would help if I upload a new copy of BasicS over the top of the existing one, or would the problem be a database one, do you think?

I could e-mail you the access codes to the Dashboard so that you could take a look, if that helps.

Hi Michael, me calling from Frankfurt again, this time I have started a personal blog with the upgraded version of your theme, as I enjoy using it. The snag I have run into: I wonder why I keep ending up on the search-results-page when I insert the more-thing into a post. could it have something to do with the fact that I altered the search-results-page in the index.php? Thanks, Mariam

Hi Michael, now I see that not only the read-more, but also the title-link ends up on the search-results-page. I seem to be the only one with this problem? Should I download the theme again and have a new go, what to you think? Thanks, Mariam

I did some testing and couldn’t duplicate the problem I see on your website. But I have an idea that might fix it. Try going to Settings > Permalinks and save your settings. You don’t need to change anything but by saving the permalink settings it will update them and possibly fix the linking problem.

Hi Michael, I suddenly realised what the mistake was: I had messed around with the perma-links. I have set them back to the original position and realise that I should first read up on that subject…. Sorry for the trouble! Mariam

Hi Michael, sorry, me again: I would like to get rid of this bit: Kommentare deaktiviert, which appeared under the title when I disabled comments for the static pages. I read up about handling the meta-code on your page, no solution. Is this another WP-thing which I will just have to live with? Or do you have an idea what I should do? Thanks you and kind regards Mariam

Hi Michael, thanks, I tried it out and got this response: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /mnt/web7/53/51/51643051/htdocs/mariam/wp-content/themes/basic-simplicity/index.php on line 26

I put the original code back in and the page is well again. But I have the feeling that the bit of code you sent would shut off all comments?

What I would like to have would be comments on the blog-page und no comments on the static pages. I was able to get rid of the “comments closed” on the bottom in the comments.php-page. But there is the translated statement “Kommentare deaktiviert” on the top of the page, under the topic-line, which I did not translate, so its definitely something to do with WP, German version.